We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.
~ Pablo Picasso
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.
~ Pablo Picasso
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Thoughts are thoughts and that’s all they are.
~ Walter Kirn
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
~ Che Guevara
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.
~ Eric Hoffer
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The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.
~ John Lanchester
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Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
~ Albert Camus
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If the United States is in the middle of a new American revolution, months and probably years will pass before its effects or causes are fully discerned. Even when structures are unstable and existing institutions lack legitimacy, “old regimes” never fall apart neatly and completely—they have to be taken apart piece by piece.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
~ Milan Kundera
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.
~ Milan Kundera
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